PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1394 – Truncated 1-hour version

This is a 1-hour version of the weekly podcast for This Week in Amateur Radio. For the full version please visit TWIAR.net

Release Date: November 15, 2025

Here is a summary of the news trending…This Week in Amateur Radio. This week’s edition is anchored by Chris Perrine, KB2FAF, Mike Nikolich, N9OVQ, Rich Lawrence, KB2MOB, Dave Wilson, WA2HOY, Don Hulick, K2ATJ, Will Rogers, K5WLR, Eric Zittel, KD2RJX, Steven Sawyer, K1FRC, Denny Haight, NZ8D, Jordon Kurtz, KE9BPO, George Bowen, W2XBS, and Jessica Bowen, KC2VWX

Produced and edited by George Bowen, W2XBS

Approximate Running Time: 1:01:51

Podcast Download: https://bit.ly/TWIAR1394HR

Trending headlines in this week’s bulletin service

1. AMSAT: Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications Adds AMSAT Publications
2. EXIT: Albanian Police Seize Amateur’s Radio Equipment Over Suspected Espionage
3. AP: FCC Proposes Auctioning Additional Spectrum To Expand Wireless Services
4. NYS: Attorney General James Demands FCC Expand Multilingual Emergency Alerts
5. WIA: Brian Eno/Beatie Wolfe Really Launch New Album
6. RSGB: 146 Thru 147 MegaHertz NoV Extension Agreed By Ofcom
7. HACK: A Treasure Trove Of Random Vintage Tech Resources
8. ARRL: 2025 ARRL Division Elections: Voting Ends November 21st
9. ARRL: Images From Space Celebrate 25 Years Of Ham Radio On The International Space Station
10. ARRL: Get Ready For The 2025 ARRL November Sweepstakes — Phone!
11. ARRL: ARRL Has Published Its 2024 Annual Report – ARRL Has Open Positions Available
12. KFIZ: Moraine Park Technical College Donates Laptop Computers To Fond du Lac Amateur Radio Club
13. CP: Neighbor objects to sixty foot ham radio tower – cites lack of notice and safety concerns
14. WIA: Amateur Radio Digital Communications is now accepting grant applications
15. ARRL: RadioGram prescident changes are announced
16. ARRL: Icom Dream Station – have you earned all your sweepstakes entries?
17. Proposed Australian band plan sees reviews by amateurs in that country

Plus these Special Features This Week:

• Foundations of Amateur Radio with Onno Benschop VK6FLAB, will attempt to answer the question, “What Do You Call That Radio?, or Where Did The Word Radio Come From?”
• The DX Corner with Bill Salyers, AJ8B with with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming radio sport contests, and a lot more..
• Will Rogers, K5WLR- A Century Of Amateur Radio – This week, Will takes us aboard The Wayback Machine to witness the arrival of international amateur communications. And, the lack of a worldwide system of station identification that led to confusion over callsigns. Without prefixes as we know them today, there was no way to use a call sign to identify a station’s country. And since each country issued callsigns independently, duplicates were inevitable. We will hear all about it in this weeks edition entitled “Callsign Confusion”

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